BS: Is there life on Mars?

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Jan 04 - 07:48 AM

Funny, but the NASA photos of Mars look just like millions of acres of Outback Australia.... over 50% of Australia is classified as that kind of dessert.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 Jan 04 - 07:57 AM

Robin-

Really? So far I've seen no sign of the usual Oz BBQ set-up.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jan 04 - 08:18 AM

Are we then looking for life in Australia?

Seriously, the Martians are there (they invaded Earth back in August, when Mars was so close, but we fought them off). They analyze our probes and crash or buggerup those which would discover them, and let the others land. I mean, look at the pictures -- YOU wouldn't live there and neither do the Martians. Their rationale is that we'll think we have a high failure rate on a planet with a surface that looks like an Australian pizza and we'll leave them alone.

And why, you ask, are they doing this? Simple -- they have their listening and viewing posts on Earth and they get such laughs and giggles out of us they don't want the show disturbed.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Jan 04 - 10:31 AM

Sorcha, scientists at NASA have taken a lichen to your good wishes!

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Peace
Date: 07 Jan 04 - 02:33 PM

SRS: THat was BAD! But, good though. lol

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Jan 04 - 09:51 AM

There was an intriguing report last night on the news that some scientists had extracted a salt water drop out of a salt crystal laid down some 200 million years ago. When they warmed it up to room temperature and examined it under magnification it was teeming with primative life forms.

They were suggesting that salt samples from Mars might contain their own life forms, not just fossils. Of course, if we ever revive such creatures they'll invariably escape the lab, expand in size and take over the Earth.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Peace
Date: 08 Jan 04 - 10:53 AM

Charley, you have just explained marmite.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Jan 04 - 01:53 PM

Or vegemite or trilobites for that matter.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Jan 04 - 05:11 PM

Charley, seriously, if you drive from Brisbane to Adelaide down the "Inland Route" through Broken Hill, you travel for tens of hours thru that sort of country, some of it with occassionally little bits of green stuff that euphemistically is called "plant life". There are signs saying that this is "semi-arid dessert".

The country that "Mad Max" was shot in - come to think of it - the sort of place to shoot anybody! And that country is considered "fertile" compared with placed like Simpon's Desert. Australia is full of places that make "Death Valley" look like a picnic spot! Over 50% of it is worse than the country around Broken Hill.

One of our scientists was heard on ABC Radio National saying it's ironic that we spend so much money and time sending probes to a place that is looking more and more like Simpson's desert.

And now I'm gonna think twice about eating Rock Salt....

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Jan 04 - 07:56 PM

Ironic indeed, Robin!

I do hope that Spirit Rover finally gets off its butt and begins to roll. We're just not trained to wait patiently for everything to line up properly before ACTION. I mean, why don't they just shift 'er into gear and tear off toward the nearest point of interest? VRRROOOM!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Peace
Date: 08 Jan 04 - 08:19 PM

Ya know, I had a vacation package book there with a lovely woman. She ditched me, so now I have to go alone. There damned well BETter be life on Mars, or I'm gonna cancel the trip.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 08:22 AM

Arnie: more on that weight limit ... in this week's New Scientist, the Beagle team said if they could have had another 5kg (11lbs to you & me) they could have fitted a radio beacon or tracing device, but there wasn't any to spare above their 62kg limit (137lb, ot just under 11st). The NASA lander weighed around 800kg (1700lb), by comparison.

We're waiting to hear the results of yesterdays "super-sensitive" scan by Mars Express. See here for latest news.

(The New Scientist article isn't on their website, so I can't link to that.)

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Mr Red
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:37 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 05:54 PM

... same as with Mudcat ... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 08:07 AM

Evidently the "super-sensitive scan by Mars Express" turned up nothing. Don't look good for Beagle-2, although I still think it's strayed off-grid and is just digging a hole somewhere.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Tweed
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 08:53 AM

That's exactly correct Charlie and I now have proof that the poor pup is indeed active and snapping fantastic shots of the Martian landscape. My moles in Bristol have sent in (to TweedTowers Central) one of the first photos from the much maligned Beagle.

Primitive Lifeforms Found on Mars(photo)

Yerz,
Tweed

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Jilly
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 06:09 PM

brucie; I have always wanted to go to Mars mind if I tag along with you.?

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: GUEST,WorstnightmareBeingchosenformarsmission
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 07:58 PM

When humans colonise Mars, I shall imagine it will be like Australia, full of fuck all! Still, unless the Americans turn it into a penal colony, the gene pool should be a slight improvement. Better to have scientists as your ancestors than pickpockets.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Peace
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 08:13 PM

And what's wrong with having pickpockets as ancestors? They did it the hard way: without income tax!

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 08:40 PM

... lucky we had plenty of rum!

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 08:46 PM

Hey, doesn't anyone pay any attention to what other people are posting? Tweed's link is a revelation! Of course, poor Beagle-2 is desparate to find a tree about now or a fire hyrant, but an electric guitar half-buried in the sand should do nicely.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Peace
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 08:54 PM

Long as it ain't plugged in.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: GUEST,Mars Life, proven
Date: 18 Jun 04 - 11:19 AM

Click, to see picture of the first Martian rovers met:
First Martian

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